Thanks House Mouse, and Thanks again

A couple of Thank You cards as you can see, using House Mouse. These are part of a decoupage collection. In both cases I've used section 2 of the decoupage pages, leaving the rest to actually turn into decoupage and use on other cards....I like to get the most out of my little housie mousies. 

On this first card I coloured my background with chalks, just a random dusting. It looks better in person than in the pic. In both cards my paper is digital from Bearly Mine Designs, the ribbon binding and yellow striped button is ribbon girl, the flower prima (coloured with promarkers) and the beautiful pins are from Linda at Creative Harmony. Except for the flower, stamp and Linda's pins, nothing I've used is less than a year old, and some much, much older. I'm getting quite good at shopping my stash.

I've used a new technique on the inside. I coloured my stamp with promarkers, then damped the page with a baby wipe. That reactivated the promarkers to produce a 'distressed' looking image. I quite like the effect and think I'll have another play using more than one colour on the stamp. Sorry, I can't remember where in blogland I saw this....so if it was you, please let me know and I'll credit you for it.

I'd like to enter this for

 Chalk N Stock - Lets Play Bingo 

 Buttons, Ribbon, Chalk, Adhesive, Markers 

 I'm entering this second card for the challenge at 

House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge -Double Trouble. 

Lovely Linda's Luxurious Pins

No, I'm not singing my own praises, these beautiful pins were made by Linda Burrows (Lindyloo) of Creative Harmony. I recently sent her some of my handmade bits and pieces and she sent these, all boxed up in sets of four, aren't they stunning.

This first four are my absolute favourites

and will be kept to be admired. 

I will eventually force myself to use the rest in projects lol

And this is how they look all boxed up, pretty eh!!

Before I go I'd like to give a shout out for Christine who has just started blogging at Christine's Cards and Crafts. Previously I've seen Christine's projects showcased on Linda's blog, and they are stunning. Hope you'll go over and say hello, we all remember when we first started blogging don't we.

The Feline Thankful Blog Hop Celebration

Hello everyone and welcome to our FELINE THANKFUL BLOG PARTY and HOP!! We
are SO THRILLED you have chosen to party with us. We have organized
this blog party to thank all of those who have joined us as followers - over
1800 of you and counting!! We want to say "THANK YOU" to all of you who have
been so supportive of this wonderful blog that tracks over 500 challenges!


 Above is my Thank You card to you all. It's made using a bits of a kit from 
Papermania, I added paper lace, as edging and around the chipboard 
cut outs. The flower and Pin were part of a swap I received though a
 fancy pin swap organised by Scrappinmoma. The Pin is by Deborah Foti,
The Flower from Zelia M. Paul  and came along with beautiful pins. 

We'd like to say a very SPECIAL THANK YOU to KAREN HOWARD, who 
started the blog just over a year ago and actually ran it solo for quite a while. 
Now a team of 14 ladies make up the DT for Feline Playful, led by SHELLEY
 and we continue to add NEW CHALLENGES almost daily including winners
 for those challenges, DT calls, blog candy and more.

We are hosting this BLOG PARTY to say "THANKS!!" to all our followers for
their continuing support. We have joined forces with a very long list of
FANTASTIC SPONSORS who have donated images, store credit/$ vouchers
 and Guest DT Spots to PARTY WINNERS.

There are 3 WAYS TO WIN:

1. JOIN THE BLOG HOP - Our blog hop starts today,  September 21 at 
9:00 am (GMT) - which just happens to be the International Day of Gratitude -
and ends September 27 at 9:00 pm (GMT). Each DT member (we have both past
and present DT members playing along) will be awarding prizes at the end of
the week to random commentors on their blog. And commentors will also be
entered into a GRAND PRIZE draw at the end of the week. You don't need to be
a follower on this blog in order to win the prizes here. 


The Prizes being offered through my blog are a GDT post at the wonderful 

Totally Tilda is a great challenge blog for all Tilda lovers...who

doesn't love Tilda eh. If you've never been there you are missing

out on some truly awesome inspiration work from the great Design 

Team over there. Pop and give them some love this week. 

And....

A $10 Gift Voucher from 

Bonibleaux Designs 

If you're looking for designs that are edgy and different

this is the place to go. 

The hop order will be as follows:



ABI
AUDREY
BERENICE R.
 CGCHRISTI
DAWN
ERUM aka E.T.
GEMMA
JENNIE
KAREN HOWARD
LEESA aka THE NAVY WIFE
LIN  You are here.
NANCY
NATALI
SHELLEY
SHELLY
ZOE 


Please remember to follow the order of the hop so that you don't miss any of
the DT members’ posts. If you get lost along the way, please return to
FELINE PLAYFUL to find the hop order. Most of all, have fun and remember to
keep coming back to FELINE PLAYFUL for all challenge listings, etc. each
day. You should have arrived from Leesa aka The Navy Wife, and your next hop
after me is Nancy .

2. FIND THE SECRET MESSAGE - Each DT member on the blog hop will share a
letter on their blog. Once you have all the letters, unscramble them to
discover a secret message. E-mail your answer to felineplayful@gmail.com All
correct answers will be entered into a draw for a GRAND PRIZE.

the Letter you want to collect from here is "Y"

3. VISIT FELINE PLAYFUL - Enter your name using Mr Linky and you will be
entered to win one of our DAILY PRIZES. You only need to enter once to be
eligible to win all week long (but you do need to be a follower of FELINE
PLAYFUL please). At the end of the week we will also be selecting at least 1
GRAND PRIZE winner.

Add your name to Mr Linky and check back daily to see if you're one of our
lucky winners:


So what are you waiting for? Let's get this party started!!!


If you want to know how to number your comments, as I have here,
please go to Kathy at Small Bits of Paper who has a video tutoral
and the HTML code. Thanks Kathy. 

Happileigh Scrappin' Challenge #28 Stars and/or Stripes.

Our Challenge this week over at Happileigh Scrappin' is Stars and/or Stripes. As you can see I went for the stripes option. My card looks like the cuckoo in the nest next to the rest of the DT who have used red, white and blue for the most part lol. Still, not everyone celebrates American Holidays and the challenge caters for us too. 

This is a photo of the card, but the colours are true above. 

My image is called Birdhouse and you can find it at the Happileigh Scrappin' Shop. I've used it before as a New Home card...I made a shaped card that time, you can see the post here. I paper-pieced it that time too....it is so much fun to paper-piece. My tiny buttons are yellow and lemon...the lemon are looking a little green poor things lol.

I did a little shading with a mustard, and pear green promarker

...not showing up too well in the pix. 

The sentiment was written by Dorcas, I needed it to fit across my page so didn't use the actual one she did...just pinched the wording. You can find Dorcas' original sentiment and her other great and fun freebie sentiments on her blog  link in her side-bar.

My seam binding, and cute striped buttons are Ribbongirl.

The Flower is cut with the centre tiny of the nestie Fleur di lis

and then glittered up on the edge with snow-writer.

 What do you think of my great new watermark. Leigh made one for all the team to use on our DT projects.

You don't need to use a Happileigh Image to join us, but if you do - and why indeed not when there are freebies available - you will be given 2 entries into the draw. Also, not to be forgotten, for every 3 images you buy at the store, you will get one free. 

The rest of the Team  have some wonderful projects to share with you, pop over to the challenge and take a look. 

Receipe :-

Image ... Happileigh Scrappin' 

DP's ... Craft Creations Summer Meadow range

Ribbon & Button ... The Ribbongirl

Paper lace (coloured green with Promarker ... Stash

Grunge flower ... Home made

Sentiment ... Dorcas Designs Freebie

A Few Challenges ...

Crafty Pad - Bold and Bright or soft pastels

Dream Valley Challenges -  Ribbon

Quirky Crafts - Recipe theme box

(3 backing papers, digi, Ribbon and/or Lace (paper lace-coloured green)

Marks Finest Papers - Make It Sparkle (glittered up Flower)  

Our Creative Corner -  Your Style (elaborate folds)

Totally Gorjuss - Ribbons & Lace 

Word Play Weekend Challenge -  Home/House

Alphabet Challenge -  "H" for half-dozen  (tiny buttons)

Fairy Knoll - Sparkle. (on my flower)

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge -  Handmade flowers.

Amber's Crafts & Stuff #12 Teen Celebration.

At Amber's Crafts and Stuff this week we are making projects with a Teen in mind. My teen project is my very first easel draw box, which I've made for the lovely daughter of a good friend of mine. She has the most beautiful red gold hair...which I've tried to imitate on the image. 

I'll be stuffing the draw with crafting goodies for her to make a few cards - it was orginally going to be chocs but there were just toooo many to fit....so she's getting a extra gift lol. 

The pin is made using some beautiful purple glass beads that Joan kindly sent to me a few days ago. The 'draw nob's' are also made with some of the beads she gave me.  My image is coloured with promarkers and the flowers and butterflies are highlighted with Sakura tira glitter pens, and glazed with the glaze pens. I used a couple of Marianne Design corners to 'frame' my image and made some roses with matching cardstock. 

Inside the easel. 

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I hope you'll pop over to Amber's and check out the work the rest of the DT have made for your inspiration, and join us this week. 

My Receipe..

Image..Gingerloft

Colourants ..Promarkers, Sakura

DP's ...Craft Creations

Die's ...Marianne Creatable & QuicKutz

Stick pin & Roses ... Homemade

Teal Cardstock... TBA

Ribbon & Gems ...Stash

Challenges I'd like to enter :-
A Spoonful Of Sugar - Flower Power
Anita Be Stampin' -  Layer it On Me
Claudia & Co - Fancy Folds
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -  Make Your Own Embellishments (Stick pin and Roses)
 Paper Minutes -  Something in Quadruplicate( 4 Roses)
Tuesday Throwdown - DIY  Embellishments (Stick Pin and Roses)
Happileigh Scrappin - Lots and Lots of Embellishments
There's Magic in the Air - Easel Cards
Allsorts -  Things With Wings

Side Stepping a Purple Circle.

I've complete my first circle side stepper for a young girl in the States. She's 12 and has a congenital spine defect that has kept her in pain all her life. It hasn't held her back from doing all she wants to though. The dr's want to operate soon but it would be a difficult and dangerous operation...so a great deal of thought before anything happens. You can find instructions to make the side stepper on Marlene's blog here

This is of course a Sugar Nellie Design and she's called Verity. Beautiful isn't she. I did do some shading on her, though not a lot is needed...I think I've been too subtle for the scanner to show it up though. The button is one of my very favouite, pearly with an 'engraved' rose.  The ribbon I used for the rosette behind it and for the bows is some wired ribbon I had from my flower arranging obsession.....see, it is right that I keep all these old  crafting stashes isn't it lol.

Plenty girly on this one, scallops, paper lace, gems and fancy pins add to the effect. My scallopy edging all around the edging is from a fancy oval die cut..I cut the fancy edge and eased it around the card.

A close up of my button. I'm getting a little better 

at parting with my favourites I think lol. 

Receipe...

Image ... Sugar Nellie Designs - Verity

Die Cuts ... Nesties & Marianne Designs

Colourants .. Promarkers

Fancy Pins ... Home Made

The Rest ... Stash. 

Circle Stepper Inspiration... Paper Pappilon Blog

Promarkers used

Pale and denim blue.

Amethyst and Lilac

Ice grey 1

blush, tan and vanilla for skin

Terracotta, cinnamon and coco for hair

I'd like to enter the following :-

My Grafico - Anything Goes 

Sugar Creek Hollow - Monochromatic

Ellephantastic Challenges - Anything but Square or Rectangle

Stamp Fairy challenge - For the Girls With a Sentiment

There She Goes Clear Stamps - Monochromatic

Woodware USA Clear Stamps - Die Cuts Or Punches

Paper Sundaes - Texture

Anita Be Stampin Challenge - Anything Goes 

Card Cupids - Pastels

Kenny K's Krafty Girls - Anything Goes

Spring Has Sprung

I've made this for a few Spring challenges, and also paper piercing/pricking which is the theme of my Card Swap this month.  I chose to prick all around the edges of the leaves - hopefully you will see better on one of the close ups. 

For my shading I followed the colouring Barbara (the designer of the image) - you can find the pic here. I'm happier with my hair than I usually am...don't think I quite got there with the dress though. I'm pleased with my improvement so thank you Barbara :-)

I made some stick pins to match using some little daffodil style beads I have, and twirled some green wire into sprirals (springs) to embellish. My flowers were cut with the tiny centre of die cutters, the pinking circle, a plain circle and the wonky square. I love using the wonky square to make flower, it makes great pointed petals. They were cut from white card and I edged around with yellow tulip promarker while the paper was damp and before I scrunched them up....made the ink spread about unevenly to give a nice effect. 

 An upstanding view taken by my resident photographer, hubby Ken.

 Some close ups of the embellishments and details.

 I added beads to the end of the twirled wire on this one, bit blured but how you get the idea. 

Receipe....

DP's - Craft Creations Green Meadow

Colourants - Promarkers

Die Cutters - Nesties

Image - Summer Breeze by Little Miss Muffet Designs 

Cardstock - Stash

Stick pins & flowers - Home Made.

I'd like to enter the following Challenges :-

Forgotten Scraps Challenge .. Spring or Flowers

The Secret Crafter ... Fancy Folds 

One Stitch At A Time ... Anything but Square

Bunny Zoe's Crafts ... Spring...Flowers Everywhere

Incy Wincy Designs ... Use Dies or Punches (flowers and leaves)

Lexi's Creations ... Flowers

Creative Cottage Challenge ... Fabulous Florals

Little Claire's ... Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments ... Spring

The Rubber Cafe... Fun Folds